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Fulacht fia

Johnstown North, County Wicklow, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Fulacht fia, Johnstown North, County Wicklow, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Johnstown North
County
Wicklow
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Not indicated
Latest-edition OS map
Not indicated
Coordinates
52.83416, -6.12373
SMR number
WI041-012----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1799 map "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1799 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1811 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1841 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

This is the record for the fulacht fia excavated by Patricia Lynch (97E207) on the Arklow bypass road scheme.
The site was a complex of three troughs, eight hearths and c. 100 stake- and post-holes, all associated with a spread of burnt mound material.
(http://www.excavations.ie/Pages/Details.php?Year=&County=Wicklow&id=4123)

Compiled by: Denis Power

Date of upload: 25 January 2013

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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